Jacques Verges, George W. Bush, and the Marquette Police Log 6/5/08

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"What is the object of human society? Is it to dazzle the eye with an immense production of useful and elegant things? Is it to cover the sea with ships and the earth with roadways? Is it, finally, to give two or three individuals out of each 100,000 the power to dispose of wealth that would suffice to maintain in comfort those 100,000?"
-- Sismondi, "Studies in Political Economy," (1818-36)

"How comes it that trade is too often disguised cheating? Law, chicanery? Medicine, experimental manslaughter? Literature, froth? Politics, a lie? And society, one huge war?"
-- G. Ludlow in "Politics For The People," A Christian Socialist Weekly, (May 13, 1848)

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

Real life. Where do I begin? It’s 11:34. What prompted me, a drunken, failed Christian, to write this? Was it personal letters and alcohol? My dear friends, Nick G. (Nick’s lucky, no one can spell his name, which means less earthly harassment) and Kristine Cool K., sent me a letter as an enclosure with my recent editorial in the Thursday, June 2008 edition of the Mighty, Mighty, Mining Journal. Praise God, REVEREND PHELPS! Little did these unsuspecting lambs of God know that they were unwittingly sending me BLOGFODDER!

Thank you Nick, you know how I love you.

Here goes.

MARQUETTE POLICE LOG!

WEDNESDAY:

8:55 a.m., destruction of property, vehicle keyed, 400 block of W. Washington.

12:22 p.m., report of vagrancy, 800 Block of W. Baraga (Is that where Glorias is?).

12:41 p.m., Burning trash in a barrel, 300 block of W. Bluff.

2:04 p.m., report of bear sighting, 400 block of N. Seventh.

4:22 p.m., man with a child approached a goose, then kicked the adult goose, reported at police station.

4:32 p.m., aggravated assault, child with a dagger or sword, 100 block of W. Hewitt.

4:35 p.m., in-laws drove by residence making hand gestures, 100 block of W. Arch.

5:00 p.m., two lawn chairs, not resident’s, left in yard during the night, 600 block of Mesnard.

5:43 p.m., juvenile runaway, later returned, 200 block of Wright.

8:40 p.m., barking dog, Dobson Place.

9:56 p.m., odor of marijuana, 1900 block of Presque Isle.

TODAY:

12:12 a.m., dead deer in roadway, M553.

3:45 p.m., drunken person passed out, Marquette Commons.

5:23 a.m., drunken man in hot tub refusing to leave, 400 block of W. Washington.

To whom it may concern, avoid Washington street when in Marquette, it’s a high crime area.

LESS NEWSWORTHY ARE THE FOLLOWING ITEMS:

“White House aides say Bush likes to emphasize how differently future generations may come to view him. Unfortunately for the president, many historians have already reached a conclusion: In an informal survey of scholars this spring, just two out of 109 historians said Bush would be judged a success; a majority deemed him the ’worst president ever’….Bush’s disapproval rating is the highest of any president since Gallup began asking the question in the 1930s.”
(Dan Eggen, “The Washington Post,” 6/8/08)

“The lawyer Jacques Verges sits back in his Paris office, lights a Cuban cigar and recalls the highlights of his notorious client list. He defended the Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, advised the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and acted for the terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal. A Buddha head given to him by friends in Cambodia’s lethal Khmer Rouge regime watches over him from his desk. Asked if he would have defended Hitler, he smiles, puffs, and says: ‘I’d even defend George Bush. But only if he pleads guilty’….’When you treat the accused as a monster, you give up trying to understand what happened. And if you don’t try to understand what happened, you deprive yourself of any reflection on how to stop that thing happening elsewhere. If the Americans had reflected on the moral defeat that torture represented for the French army in Algeria, what has gone on at Abu Ghraib would certainly never have happened.”
(Angelique Chrisafis Interview, “The Guardian,” 30.05.08)